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Ontario court rules against Jordan Peterson, upholds social media training order (www.cbc.ca)

Jordan Peterson, unofficial head of incels and creator of Lobsterman, has to take a course on how to be professional on social media....

A Pennsylvania court says state police can't hide how it monitors social media (apnews.com)

A Pennsylvania court says state police can’t hide how it monitors social media::Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court handed civil liberties advocates a victory, ruling that state police can’t hide from the public its policy governing how it monitors social media.

Woman arrested after spraying Quran-burner with fire extinguisher in Sweden (www.aljazeera.com)

Swedish police detained a woman who sprayed an anti-Islam activist with a fire extinguisher as he staged a Quran-burning protest outside the Iranian Embassy in Stockholm....

TIL about the 1957 Kyshtym disaster in the USSR, where improperly stored nuclear waste exploded and created the third-worst peacetime nuclear incident in history. It was kept secret until 1976. (en.wikipedia.org)

To make it worse, before they decided to store the nuclear waste, they’d just dump it into the river, which was used as drinking water by thousands of people. Again, kept secret.

North Korea says Travis King wants refuge from mistreatment, racism in US (www.reuters.com)

Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds (www.independent.co.uk)

Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds::New study suggests effort users put in cracking these puzzles every day may be more trouble than its worth

Car crashes into second floor of Pennsylvania house (www.nbcnews.com)

EA Will Shut Down Online Servers For These 12 Games By The End Of The Year (www.gamespot.com)

Russian ship hit in Novorossiysk, Black Sea drone attack, Ukraine sources say (www.bbc.com)

A Russian naval ship has been damaged in a Ukrainian naval drone attack in the Black Sea, Ukrainian sources say....

Asian MIT grad asks AI to make her photo more ‘professional,’ gets turned into white woman (nextshark.com)

The student ended up with a fairer complexion, dark blonde hair and blue eyes after her Playground AI request

Mexican president urges end to 'irrational' Ukraine war, wants Russia at peace talks (www.reuters.com)

Call for large trial to see if kombucha helps Type 2 diabetes after 'very promising' results (news.sky.com)

The ancient fermented tea drink has grown in popularity in recent years due to a range of purported health and energy benefits, though evidence to support many of the claims is thin.

Europe’s dark matter-hunting space telescope nabs its first test images (www.esa.int)

AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay (www.theregister.com)

Cloud giant AWS will start charging customers for public IPv4 addresses from next year, claiming it is forced to do this because of the increasing scarcity of these and to encourage the use of IPv6 instead....

One trick to boost your chances of getting into an elite college? Be rich. (www.marketwatch.com)

Leaked Google pay data reveals the highest salaries the tech giant pays in engineering, sales, and more (www.businessinsider.com)

Leaked Google pay data reveals the highest salaries the tech giant pays in engineering, sales, and more::Insider obtained an internal Google spreadsheet that shows how much employees were paid in 2022 — and which roles at the tech giant paid best.

Justice Department planning legal action against Texas over floating border barrier (www.cnn.com)

The Justice Department told Texas Thursday that it intends to file legal action against the placement of floating barriers in the Rio Grande as part of the state’s operation along the Texas-Mexico border, according to sources familiar and a letter obtained by CNN.